An original story written by our offline (Jaipur) student Rudra Bansal.

Rudra is 14 years old. A young orator and writer. We are proud to have him as a student of the Personality Development Program using Applied Storytelling, Public Speaking, Theatre, and Creative Writing tools under the mentorship of Facilitator Khusshbo Chokhaani. We congratulate Rudra for this exemplary true self-expression.

The Mysterious Watch

Back in the time in Ludhiana, there lived a family. They had a mining business. They were famous for their business and their kind-heartedness.

The family had one child named Ryan. One day while working, Ryan’s father found a mysterious box. After seeing the material inside the box, he hid it in a secret place and set a code. Some years later he got cancer, during his last time he told Ryan about the box, but he was not allowed to open it before he was 30. Years passed and that box was a showpiece in Ryan’s drawing room. But the day finally came, on his 30th birthday he had had a small party, he had completely forgotten about the mysterious box, but the box didn’t. The box started to sing “Happy birthday Ryan, now open me”. Ryan and his friends were shocked he told them to ignore it and continued to party. After the party, he was curious about the box when he entered the code and saw inside the box, he was disappointed because there was only a simple old watch in it. Considering it as a last thing from his dad he wore it, when he adjusted the time-adjusting screw, he was shocked. Because instead of adjusting the time, the clock took Ryan into the past, where Ryan and his father were playing, he was overwhelmed after seeing this view, but when he pushed the screw, the time suddenly stopped. This was so weird for him. Then he considered himself the king of the world he kept using it and enjoying his life. Little did he know that the watch couldn’t only do time travel but also could walk and run like a human being.

One night the watch casually went out for a walk and did not return. The next morning, Ryan kept looking for his watch, in the kitchen, under the bedsheet, in the almirah, and everywhere. He did not find his watch.

About 10 days later he received a call about his watch. According to the person he went to the location and found his watch but after seeing the condition of the watch he was heartbroken; he found his watch in a million pieces. He went from Kashmir to Kanyakumari but couldn’t find a watch mender to mend his watch.

He was worried about the watch and kept blaming himself, he then decided to leave the watch back in its box. While keeping the pieces he found a user manual and found some mantras to fix the watch. He chanted the mantras and the watch was fixed. His eyes were full of tears of joy.

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